March

You'll know the end of winter is near when you see the camellias in flower at a festival with parti-coloured beans, tea and olive oil. Beans and sausages are inseparable in Tuscany, which leads to a visit to a pork butcher. It's still cool enough to enjoy warming up by baking bread with the village baker.

Sample activities

Visit a pork butcher and find out how they make those incomparable Italian cured meats

Join the locals at an international camellia festival in a village famous for its tea plantation, olive oil and many types of beans

Use your sausages and the festival beans in a cooking lesson

Spend a day in a village where ancient and modern work together in harmony: bake Garfagnana potato bread with the village baker in his wood-fired oven, visit farro fields and state-of-the-art farro polishing machine

Visit the water mill where the baker's farro is ground

Tour the walled town of Lucca with a descendant of one of the thirteen ruling families of the Renaissance

Dine at the home of an Italian family where mamma is a superb cook

Meals in family restaurants off the beaten track

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